March 27

Self Portrait (27 March 2021) @ 10:34 am.

Better Than News

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  Imperial Crown is a historical science fiction drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

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  Three Days of the Captain is a political superhero thriller film directed by Sydney Lumet and the Russo brothers, starring Robert Redford and Chris Evans.

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  Citrus Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles which examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, a ruthless citrus fruit farmer.

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  In Search of Anathem is an American television series hosted by Leonard Nimoy and Neal Stephenson which is devoted to monastic ratiocination and the search for a plurality of universes.

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  The Jaguar and the Bat is a superhero travel-adventure television series hosted by Bruce Wayne. In the pilot episode, the god Tezcatlipoca is outraged when billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne takes a priceless Aztec mask from an ancient temple.

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  "The Bayer Necessities" is a song from the 1967 Disney film The Junkie Book about analgesics manufactured by the Bayer company.

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  "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Caddies" is a country music song about the perils of raising children to be Cadillac automobiles.

Are You Sure

• ... that engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of X-rays?

• ... that engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry gained fame for his depictions of early European overseas expeditions; and that, although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers?

• ... that chemist and physicist James Dewar invented the vacuum flask, which he used in his pioneering research into the liquefaction of gases?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1598: Engraver, goldsmith, and publisher Theodor de Bry dies. de Bry gained fame for his depictions of early European expeditions. Although de Bry never visited the Americas, most of his books are based on first-hand observations by explorers.

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  1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.

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  1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.

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  1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.

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  2011: Artist George Tooker dies. Tooker's paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

Topic of the Day

Spies

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  The Eagle Has Tweeted is a 1975 novel by Tannery Strophe about a fictional German plot to impersonate Winston Churchill on Twitter near the end of the Second World War.

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  Three Legs of the Fryer is a 1975 American political animal rights film about a bookish CIA poultry researcher (Robert Redford) who comes back from lunch after developing a viable three-legged chicken to discover his co-worker (Tyson Foods) murdered.

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  Bourne Kong is a 2021 action-zoology film starring Matt Damon.

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  SS Minnow is a dramatic television program set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the fictional yet illegal drug Clandestiphrine.